Mr. Graff's early support for using market forces to encourage environmentally friendly behavior was a somewhat radical idea at the time.
Really Reprints Related items The conservative movement: A Hammer blowSep 29th 2005 The fiscal mess: Or is it an opportunity?Sep 29th 2005With retail petrol prices rising, George Bush was forced to encourage Americans to "curtail non-essential travel" and to car-pool when possible.
Advocates of the policy say that Europe needs its own forces to encourage investment in defence and to take part in missions, such as peacekeeping in Africa, in which the United States does not want to become involved.On the ground, the EU and NATO have co-operated relatively well.
A price on carbon establishes, at the most basic level, an economic disincentive to pollute, and uses market forces to encourage innovation and development of clean energy solutions.
-Join forces to encourage federal investment in wastewater infrastructure, which can significantly impact the health of the region's tourism and fishing industries through threats to water quality.
They can pursue a dual strategy of providing critical, direct and indirect subsidies -- known as push mechanisms -- to partnerships that develop new products for global health needs, and provide financing measures like the AMC -- known as a "pull" mechanism -- to use market forces to encourage research and development.
As BioShield funding could not contribute to the preclinical stage of medical countermeasure development, the government was forced to rely on market forces to encourage the development of new products or technologies that might eventually be procured under BioShield.
Just last week, the group had met with the North Charleston police to try to strengthen the relationship between the community and the force, and to encourage transparency.
The financial crisis is forcing regulators to encourage the creation of bigger, more interconnected institutions.
